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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

Of course, all three of these are operating in the presence of uncertainty and therefore require estimates to be made. Estimates of the aleatory and epistemic uncertainties that create risk to the delivered Value need to be handled. When defining values, do not think about their measurability. Excluding hard-to-measures values.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. Some feel that the cone does not provide any value for the work they do and does not match the reducing uncertainty in their estimates. This letter states.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Estimation of Long?Term reducible and irreducible ? Kwak and J.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . The number of firms with a PPM process in place grew from 64% in 2003 to 71% in 2013. [13]. Consistent application of defined processes – 44%. Inadequate cost estimates – 29%. Inaccurate task time estimate – 27%. ESI International: Annual Salary Survey 2013.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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Little's Law - Use, Misuse, and Sometimes Simply Wrong Ideas

Herding Cats

The System is a general concept that defines the boundary for all the work activities that transform Inputs into Outputs. For software development systems like Kanban, which is production line-centric, Litle's Law tells us. λ = average production rate of complete software components. Kanban and Software Development.